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- From: sdm7g@elvis.med.Virginia.EDU (Steven D. Majewski)
- Subject: Re: Is it possible to E-mail through Telnet?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.013709.25001@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <kennehra.727564452@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:37:09 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <kennehra.727564452@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> kennehra@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Rich"TheMan"Kennehan) writes:
- >
- >
- >Hi. I saw some script code that had a method to send E-mail through
- >telnetting to the mailserver. The code works like this:
- >
- >telnet $mailserver smtp < file
- >
- >the variable $mailserver was defined elsewhere in the program as
- >input from the command line. What I would like to know is: Will this
- >work? Is it possible to send E-mail by telnetting to the mailserver?
- >And what does "smtp" do?
- >
-
- Get a copy of rfc821 and try:
- >telnet $mailserver smtp
- HELP
-
- Other than debugging a new mail system, the only time I ever
- directly connect to smtp is to try VRFY or EXPN to check if
- I have a valid handle.
-
-
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